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What happens when a database crashes while consuming data from Kafka, and how do you handle it?
Tests whether you know the consumer should not commit the offset until the DB write succeeds, so a crash mid-write just means the message is redelivered -- which is why the DB write must also be idempotent to avoid double-processing on replay.
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